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Once we reached our hometown late in the night around 10 O'clock,I settled on the neatly set sofa like a piglet. Sipping hot filter coffee we started discussing about the rainfall .. I was delighted recollecting the sweet memories,The days when Radio was the only reliable source of media during monsoon.Waking up by 6 even without alarm set, to hear 'Pradeshika Varthe' where she said "ಕೊಡಗಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಂದುವರಿದ ಮಳೆ,ಶಾಲಾ ಕಾಲೇಜುಗಳಿಗೆ ೨ ದಿನಗಳ ರಜೆ ಘೋಷಣೆ"(2 days of leave sanctioned to all the schools and colleges due to heavy rain)After which I used to happily burry myself in the warm bed.  The holidays spent by hunting wild fruits like passion fruit,rose apple,star apple, berries. Fighting with each other for extra bamboo shoot pieces in the curry, stream fishing, making paper boats, playing dice games,chennamane, awaiting to hear about the filling of Bethri Bridge so that we get more holidays.. Today when we go home it's not the same,the monsoon is not joyous!The

 It was our final year MSc organic chemistry practical exam.We had to learn so many organic reaction and their mechanisms,by the time I reached the 5-6th equation I used to forget the rest !I decided to go through these equations only after revising other experiment.My friend Sushmitha Naik (Sussmi)had written all these equations and practiced ,I asked her that set of papers to study she said that she would give it little later,fine I waited for sometime and she gave it,she had written each equation clearly may be thrice.I was going  through those equations by then it was time to stand in attendance order to pick the token numbers,so I hurriedly put those set of papers in my record and stood. My turn came and my token number was 1.I felt so dejected ,many thoughts popped up in my mind.What if I'm unable to write the equations,what I fail to do well in viva and so on.I said myself not to worry and to be calm.Fine the external called my number I went and sat before him.He took